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There is no reason whatsover for any investor, even those investing only $10K, to invest in a mutual fund with all of their explicit costs, not to mentioned the internal and hidden opperating costs. Now there are ETFs with very nominal total cost (ranginf from 1/4 of 1% to a 1%) that provide same or better diversification and same or better returns. There are closed end bond funds listed on exchanges that can be bought below their respective NAV that provides diversificiation as well as holdings and maturity specificity. Any ETD and/or closed end fund can be purchased as a stock with cost as low as $10 total regardless of the number of shares purchased. Wall Street and its afifiliates wont tell you this because they make billions of dollars every year in regular mutual funds. Less than 5% of all managers and/or mutual funds, including hedged funds beat the SPY ETF. Look and Learn. that is L & earn.....

4:53 pm October 26, 2011

Tony wrote :

There too many reasons to be fearful of common stocks today, I'm confortable with approximately xero percent with twenty-eight day Treasuries, and I sleep well. My advice: Get out now and save yourself!

4:45 pm October 26, 2011

cs wrote :

The article is written by a herd follower.

4:17 pm October 26, 2011

Klippenstein wrote :

"That signals the market’s October strength doesn’t exactly have the firepower of the investor class behind it."

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